The REAL Reason The Romanov Dynasty Fell: Alexandra Feodorovna

It is a cold afternoon in February 1917, and a woman in a white nurse's apron walks the corridors of the Alexander Palace at Tsarskoye Selo. She has been awake for most of the night. Four of her five children lie upstairs with measles, their faces flushed and their hair shorn against the fever. Her son, the boy whose secret has organized her every decision for thirteen years, sleeps among them. Telegrams from her husband at army headquarters have grown shorter and stranger over the past three days. Outside Petrograd, twenty miles to the north, crowds are smashing bakery windows. She writes to him that evening. The disturbances in the capital, she tells the Tsar, are a hooligan movement, young people running about and shouting that they have no bread, simply to create excitement, along with workers who prevent others from working. If only the weather would turn very cold, she adds, then everyone would probably stay at home. By the time he reads the letter, the regiments meant to protect him will have already turned their rifles in the other direction. This is the story of how the most isolated woman in the Russian Empire wound up dismantling its government from her private chapel, and of how a marriage built on tenderness ended in the destruction of the Romanov dynasty. The story is not one of treason! Despite what generations of pamphleteers insisted, it is not one of sexual depravity in a peasant's bed. Something stranger and more disturbing happened. A sincere woman who loved her husband, her son, and her God believed, with the full force of her convictions, that compromise itself amounted to sin. Over Time by Audionautix is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/... Artist: http://audionautix.com/ creativecommons.org